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Tubercular

adjective
1.
Characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles.
2.
Pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle.
3.
Relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it.
4.
Constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus.  Synonym: tuberculous.  "Tuberculous patients" , "Tubercular meningitis"





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"Tubercular" Quotes from Famous Books



... such reconciliation must exist. Possibly if we interpret Lombroso's phrase, "inherited tendency towards crime" or "predisposition towards crime" in the same way as we interpret the term ("predisposition towards disease") when speaking of tubercular persons (or, as Mercier speaks of the insane), that is as persons, who in a given favourable environment, are more likely to commit crime than persons without that inherited tendency, we may find these theories to be more ...
— A Plea for the Criminal • James Leslie Allan Kayll
... laboriosity, really worthy of respect—what charlatanism! What great names exploited as a shop sample! How many sages turned into proprietors of sanatoriums! . . . A Herr Professor discovers the cure of tuberculosis, and the tubercular keep on dying as before. Another labels with a number the invincible remedy for the most unconfessable of diseases, and the genital scourge continues afflicting the world. And all these errors were representing great fortunes, each saving panacea ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... around them. Of the former was Doc Holliday, a tubercular gunman with the irascible disposition which some invalids own, who had drifted hither from Colorado. Among the latter were the Clanton brothers and Frank Stilwell, who robbed the stage and rustled cattle for a living. John Ringo, who was really the brains of the outlaws, ...
— When the West Was Young • Frederick R. Bechdolt


Words linked to "Tubercular" :   sick, lunger, consumptive, sufferer, sick person, ill, tuberculosis, tuberosity, diseased person, tubercle, tuberculous


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